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Presenting the security of Windows Server 2008
On Thursday night I had the privilege of presenting to the OWASP.org user group. Those who are unaware of this group, they are a passionate group of security experts in Singapore.   We had a 30-strong attendance from the group packed in to our Microsoft Read More...
Server Core "Theoretically" reduces the number of Security Bulletins
Just after publishing our video on Server Core, I visited Jeff Jones Security Blog , and found this post http://blogs.technet.com/security/archive/2008/06/12/download-server-core-potential-security-benefit.aspx on how having a server OS being installed Read More...
Making Security Better for the IT Pro
I literally just stepped out of keynoting the latest Technet Security Event for Microsoft Singapore. The question I posed to the attendees at the event, "What things can Microsoft be doing better for IT Professionals in Singapore with regards to Read More...
Learning to Love UAC...
I know a lot of people get annoyed by the UAC feature in Windows Vista, but here is a reason to inspire new love for this protective prompt. " Love or hate its nagging prompts, Vista 's Account Control feature (UAC) has a security feature that marks Read More...
Microsoft Malware Protection Center - Security Intelligence Report
Microsoft recently released its Security Intelligence Report Version 4 on April 22 at the Infosecurity Europe event in London. This is no light reading folks, its a big report about 104 pages long, but there are some really interesting facts inside... Read More...
Report: Microsoft fastest to issue OS patches, Sun slowest
Symantec have just released their malware report on security threats in the industry and it is great to see that results are in showing that Microsoft is the fastest in the industry to issue operating system patches to help protect customers from vulnerabilities. Read More...
Jeff Jones Security Blog : Download: Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report
Hey everyone, Wanted to point you to a report produced by a colleague of mine about Vista vulnerabilities one year after release. It is an in-depth report that compares Windows Vista against Windows XP, Linux and other OS'es. Good news is that our investments Read More...
Social Engineering
Social engineering is a very real problem in today's enterprise world. To get an understanding of what Social Engineering is, check out the following video. As they say the chain is only as strongest as the weakest link, so we can all do our part to ensure Read More...
Top 5 security-menace predictions for 2008 - Network World
Interesting article from Network World on the Top 5 security menace predictions of for 2008. In order Bot Evolution Web Threats (Aimed not only at unsuspecting visitors to social networking sites, such as MySpace, but any type of site or corporate web Read More...
Sneak Peak - How to use Windows Server 2008 Core for PHP, MySQL
I challenged Dennis Chung (my counterpart in the security bytes video, and one of the smartest guys I know when it comes to IT) recently to see what kind of usage scenarios we could use Windows Server 2008 Core . For those of you who are unaware of what Read More...
Security Bytes 02 - Automated Patch Management... FREE!!!
Technorati Tags: Security , Security Bytes As our IT environments continually grow in size both on the client and server side, patch management becomes a more complex task. While at Microsoft we try to ensure that we release patches on a predictable schedule Read More...
Security Bytes 01 in Silverlight
Technorati Tags: Security , Security Bytes One of the pieces of advice I got from some people that had seen the video was to try out using Silverlight streaming. So after installing Expression Encoder I encoded the file, uploaded to the streaming service Read More...
Technet Singapore Security Briefing - Friday 28th of September
Last Friday I had the pleasure of opening the Security Briefings my esteemed colleague Yasmeen Hameed-Chan organized. It was a half day session targeted at IT Pros who   want to learn more about security in the IT enterprise, and how they can apply Read More...
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